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Girls in Information Technology

A professional IT conference specially designed for girls in Junior High and High School.

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Why IT? Why Technology?

• Do you like to share great new ideas?
• Do you want to know how things work and what makes them go?
• Can you solve problems that puzzle other people?
• Do you have a talent for design and innovation?
• Are you determined to be the best you can be?
• Do you want to help make the world a better place?
• Are you a great organizer?
• Want to write computer code? How about lead a team of people doing interesting and unique tasks?

With background in technology, you can go anywhere! Computers, engineering, medicine, biology, education, physics, rocket science, mathematics, business, law, whatever your heart desires!

The stereotype of the geek in short pants and broken glasses is gone! We are active in sports, music, literature, theater, even comedy! What about the "too many men" problem? Well, you can help change that -- Join us and tilt the balance back to even -- or even a female dominated profession!

Didja Know?

The person credited with developing the first programming constructs was Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace...

The world's first electronic computing machine was called the ENIAC and this intimidating and impressive machine was first programmed by six women: Kathleen (Kay) McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Jean Jennings Bartik, Frances Synder Holberton, Marlyn Wescoff Melzer, Frances Bilas Spence, and Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum. (Gürer)

Grace Murray Hopper developed the first compiler!

A woman inventor named Stephanie Louise Kwolek was responsible for saving thousands of lives by designing Kevlar®, a fiber five times stronger ounce for ounce than steel, that is best known for its use in bulletproof vests. (http://www.developdesigndiscover.org/in_the_know.html)

Long-lasting lipstick can attribute its birth to a woman named Hazel Gladys Bishop, who led the charge by utilizing advances in chemistry to design one of the first modern cosmetics. (http://www.developdesigndiscover.org/in_the_know.html)

Bette Nesmith Graham, a secretary in Dallas and a single mother, used her own kitchen blender to create the first batch of Liquid Paper, used to cover up mistakes made on paper. She later sold her company for nearly $50 million dollars. (http://www.developdesigndiscover.org/in_the_know.html)

Famous 1940s actress Hedy Lamarr is credited with several sophisticated inventions, among them a unique anti-jamming device for use against Nazi radar. (http://www.developdesigndiscover.org/in_the_know.html)

NASA astronaut Bonnie Dunbar helped to develop the ceramic tiles that enable space shuttles to survive re-entry. (http://www.developdesigndiscover.org/in_the_know.html)

Beulah Louise Henry was known in the 1920s and '30s as "the lady Edison" for her inventions such as including a vacuum ice cream freezer, a typewriter that made multiple copies without carbon paper, and a bobbinless lockstitch sewing machine. Henry made millions from manufacturing her inventions. (http://www.developdesigndiscover.org/in_the_know.html)

Emily Roebling supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge after taking over the job of day-to-supervision from her sick husband. She was considered the Chief Engineer as she had studied mathematics as well as materials for construction such as cables. (http://www.developdesigndiscover.org/in_the_know.html)

Cool and Useful Links!

Ohio Women in IT

• Career Data
• Education & Program Opportunities
• Expert Views & News
• Other Resources!

Organizations

• Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI)
• Society of Women Engineers
• Develop, Design, Discover! Women Innovating with Technology
• ACM-W: The ACM Committee on Women in Computing

Conferences (Past & Upcoming)

• Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing
• Ohio Celebration of Women In Computing

Other Pages

• National Workforce Center for Emerging Technologies - Girl's Site
• The National Women's History Project (NWHP)
• Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
• Ohio Women's Hall of Fame
• Akron Women's History

Information Collected from

Gürer, D. 2002. Women in computing history. SIGCSE Bull. 34, 2 (Jun. 2002), 116-120. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/543812.543843

Prey, J. and Treu, K. 2002. What do you say?: open letters to women considering a computer science major. SIGCSE Bull. 34, 2 (Jun. 2002), 18-20. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/543812.543819

Women and Computing ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 34 , Issue 2 (June 2002) ISSN:0097-8418 ACM Press New York, NY, USA

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